Full Description
Are you ready to write your book? Partner with an experienced publisher, writing coach, and author and find out how to turn your research and scholarship into a book.
This book is the next-best-thing to a personal writing coach. Drawing upon her own extensive experience as an author and publisher, Melody Herr guides the reader through every step of the writing and publishing process: constructing a table of contents, preparing a proposal, finding a publisher, negotiating a contract, drafting the manuscript, and marketing the finished product. Throughout, she offers proven strategies for producing a book that highlights its author's authoritative knowledge and writing skills.
Unique among writing guides, Writing and Publishing Your Book: A Guide for Experts in Every Field acknowledges the reader's own expertise; speaks to researchers and scholars across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities; and provides information and guidance that will benefit junior authors as well as their more senior colleagues. By following these practical, step-by-step instructions, new authors will more easily liberate their own creativity while avoiding the many pitfalls that mire new writers, thereby maintaining momentum for a successful publication.
Contents
Introduction: Introducing the Expert
1 Developing Your Project: The Criteria for a Book
2 Designing Your Book: The Initial Structure
3 Writing Your Proposal: The Expert's Portfolio
4 Investigating Your Publishing Options: The Search for a Partner
5 Launching Your Charm Offensive: Proposal Submission and Peer Review
6 Understanding Your Publishing Contract: The Author-Publisher Partnership
7 Drafting Your Manuscript: Performance and Presentation
8 Presenting Your Evidence: Quotations, Images, Tables, and Graphs
9 Preparing Your Final Manuscript: The Components of a Book
10 Publishing and Marketing Your Book: A Member of the Team
Conclusion: Giving Back
References
Index
